https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6BK8p6BMRU
This is either the finest fitting of a scope / best shot ever taken / most still wind / act of God OR it is an absolute hoax. What say you people?
Btw I worked out he'd have needed 56m of holdover if zero'd at 100y to hit that 2L coke bottle at 1000y. I have expert advice that this wasn't a hoax and he's apparently a kick arse F-class shooter as well as an airgun trailblazer. If its real, I put it forward that this is the best shot I have ever seen.
pretty sure you can hear the gun. not going to happen at 1000y
Load of crap i say
Nope, no way, nah hah, never happen.
Im gonna say anything is possible.
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I have no trouble believing the projectile will easily reach that far if you read the ballistics.
Hitting what you're aiming at there will be luck but I'd guess he's previously zeroed and tested the gun a lot.
If you look at how elevated the muzzle is, that'd correspond to what the OP calculated.
I'd guess many of you guys haven't used a decent PCP air rifle. Grab the opportunity if you ever get the chance. My 40 ft-lb .22 AirWolf routinely takes starlings out of the macrocarpa at 80+yds, in fact I'd say if there's no wind, I have better than an 80% chance of stoning one first shot. Magpies are easy at that distance.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hbxKZn...Sp3pLQEw%3D%3D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RMyx-j...6JbnzJLehQE%3D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mJf3Fc...2tquocfnowE%3D
I'm a believer,just takes a few sighters.
Its so hard to believe because most airguns use shuttlecock looking skirted pellets. He's using cast solid slugs that are lobbed up at 35deg.
I'll bring Brendan (ClarkArms) up to the next long range event and we'll see if his 20cal rifle can replicate that shot.
First problem, what the hell is that mount the guy is using? Brendan would need assistance with the optics but his custom made Airguns are as powerful / accurate as the one shown.
I've seen his 50cal cloverleaf at 100m
I thought @Dundee had painted his gongs Blue!
I timed from the report to the hit (badly) and got 1.65 seconds. Plus the 2.7 seconds the sound takes to travel from the airgun to the target, the projectile was in the air for about 4.34 seconds. That's an average of about 690 fps.Quote:
Originally Posted by robhughes-games
Sounds about right to me, and you won't get sort of delay between the report and the hit unless you're at very silly range with subsonics.
Could get it but how many shots did it take haha
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One, which was a miss on the steel plate as he explained. The bottle was placed next to it for a size comparison.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keownr
Can you please ring Elle McPherson and tell her that VC? She didn't believe me the last time I told her I was going to pin a tail,on her.Quote:
Originally Posted by veitnamcam
Sorry @Rushy,but she ain't gunna believe it next time either:XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
I live in eternal hope. She is still a hotty after all these years and I am still lusting?Quote:
Originally Posted by madjon_
Full and unopened soda bottles are quite firm - it would take a fair bit to pierce (for an air rifle) - say 20 ft.lbs? or 10% of the muzzle energy at 1000 yards. The projectile will be at a crawl at that distance. Air gunners are known for talking bullshit but this takes the cake - speaking as a national level Air Rifle Field Target shooter.
When I was a kid I used to do this. I would pack diy blackpowder in the cavity behind the slug. It worked similar to a case less round and would punch a .22 cal slug through 12mm ply at 100m from a worn out BSA.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexW
I would also fill a 1.5l drink bottle 3/4 with water and using a car valve under the bottle cap pump it to 100 psi. The resulting strike from the air rifle would fracture the bottle (all that was required) and the water would blow out instantly. It sounded like a 12 Guage.
Aye @Ingrid and @stretch
Almost lost my hand one time.
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"It's Airguns Jim,but not as we know it":O_O:Quote:
Originally Posted by AlexW
Two times that I can recall. Once when that coke bottle exploded at 200(?)psi, and once when someone inadvertently lit an entire packet of skyrockets in your bedroom and you tried to extinguish them by cupping your hands over the burny end. Painful chemistry lesson, that one - rockets don't need atmospheric oxygen to do their thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Feral
Hook brother up, who wants to carry the air bottle for me??
92 grn .257 @ 1000 fps. Is 204 ft/lbs:o mine is 17
Another small paragraph I found.
Precharged pneumatic (PCP) airguns represent one of the oldest airgun powerplants of all time. They have been around since at least the early 1600s and most likely a bit longer. In the 1780s, the Austrians fielded over 500 riflemen, each armed with a breechloading .47 caliber 21-shot repeating air rifle and the capability to fire at least 42 shots before returning to the rear for more air. This was at a time when repeating firearms were just a glimmer on the technological horizon, and few armies used rifles in any quantity--most used smoothbore muskets. :cool: